A few weeks back, there was a story about a shooting in Miami. A man recorded what happened and, due to police involvement, hid the SIM card (or micro SD card) in his mouth.
Benoit said the officers eventually uncuffed him after gunshots rang out elsewhere and he discreetly removed the SIM card and placed it in his mouth.
You only need to read the first chapter of The Gaven to see a similar incident. I wonder if this guy read my novel.
Volkswagen is testing their own self-driving cars. The Volkswagon self-driving car can go up to 80 MPH on the highway.
It combines such automatic systems as ACC adaptive cruise control, the Lane Assist lane-keeping system and Side Assist lane-changing monitoring into one comprehensive function. “Nonetheless, the driver always retains driving responsibility and is always in control,” continues Leohold. “The driver can override or deactivate the system at any time and must continually monitor it.”
Drivers must still continually focus their attention on the road, so that they can intervene in safety-critical situations at any time.
Volkswagen hopes to have this in production in a couple of years. I have to say, I’m excited. Having just driven a 56 hour round trip car ride from Nebraska to New York, I’m looking forward to a time when the car can do the driving for me.
The Gaven also uses these types of vehicles on the highway and in cities.
I’ve done an interview with Morgen Bailey. Although it covers The Gaven, there is a bit more about me and the other writings and blog that I write. Hopefully, you’ll find it interesting.
Techdirt has a story about Nevada pushing the idea of autonomous cars.
some politicians in Nevada are working hard to court autonomous vehicle manufacturers to its state. They’ve put together a bill that would make it easier to get autonomous vehicles on the road in the state, by setting up a process to “authorize” such vehicles, and allow them to operate on Nevada highways.
More work needs to be done to make autonomous cars a viable option on the road. In The Gaven, they’re fully functional and engrained into daily life.
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In The Gaven, Pelgrem uses a station wagon to deliver items. It’s a modified version of the sneakernet. Apparently, Osama bin Laden utilized a sneakernet as well.
Although bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan lacked phone and Internet connectivity, the al Qaeda leader used his computers to prepare messages and save them on flash drives, which would be passed to a courier, according to the Associated Press. The courier would head to a far-flung Internet cafe, send the outgoing messages, retrieve the incoming ones, and then return to Abbottabad with the responses.
That physical couriering of data, or sneakernet, helped bin Laden to evade U.S. intelligence agencies, especially the extraordinarily sensitive electronic ears of the National Security Agency, which specializes in intercepting radio and other communications.
It’s very ingenious that bin Laden utilized a sneakernet for passing of messages. It’s also the most logical choice.
